The Flint Anchor
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
John Barnard, a leading merchant, is a pillar of 19th century rectitude. Though stern with his tipp…
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1. Dust Tracks on a Road
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.11
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and a… read more
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- classics
"Mystery is the essence of divinity"-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
2. Antony and Cleopatra
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall
3.71
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Melt Egypt into Nile!"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"...make death proud to take us."-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
3. The Merry Wives of Windsor
By: William Shakespeare
3.55
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"I assure thee: setting the attractions of my good parts aside I have no other charms."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
4. The Fountain Overflows
By: Rebecca West , Andrea Barrett
3.70
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for insta… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is."-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
"but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever."-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
"She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them."-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
"Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving…"-Rebecca West, The Fountain Overflows
5. A Passage to India
By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass
3.68
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
6. The Comedy of Errors
By: William Shakespeare
3.72
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
7. Bleak House
By: Charles Dickens , Hablot Knight Browne , Nicola Bradbury
4.02
Format: 1017 pages, Paperback
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic… read more
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- classics
- british literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"You can be nothing better than yourself; be that [...]"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!"-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right."-Charles Dickens, Bleak House
8. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
9. A Pale View of Hills
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.79
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
10. Let It Be Morning
By: Sayed Kashua , Miriam Shlesinger
3.80
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Soon to be a major motion picture from award–winning director Eran Kolirin In his searing new novel… read more
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- novels
- fiction
11. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
Librarian Note: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here On a rainy Sunday in Januar… read more
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- classics
- female authors
- british literature
- fiction
- novels
"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
12. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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- classics
13. The Summer Book
By: Tove Jansson , Esther Freud , Thomas Teal , Sophia Jansson
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Paperback
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island … read more
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- classics
- fiction
14. Barkskins
By: Annie Proulx
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the late seventeenth century two penniless young Frenchmen, Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
15. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
4.10
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more
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- historical fiction
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
16. The Dud Avocado
By: Elaine Dundy , Terry Teachout
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas … read more
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17. Bloodchild and Other Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more
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18. Tono-Bungay
By: H.G. Wells , Edward Mendelson , Patrick Parrinder
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting li… read more
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19. Breakout (Parker, #21)
By: Richard Stark
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
Parker's back in jail, but not just any old jail; it's the correctional center, where people withou… read more
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20. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)
By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more
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21. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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22. Elizabeth Costello
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, a… read more
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23. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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- british literature
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
24. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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- novels
- fiction
"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
25. No One Is Talking About This
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.55
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more
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- fiction
"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This
26. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- fiction
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
27. Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
By: Andrey Kurkov
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Pengu… read more
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- fiction
28. Julia
By: Sandra Newman
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia… read more
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- classics
- fiction
- historical fiction
"У цьому весь жах. Ти не маєш вибору, а все ж мусиш діяти точно так, ніби маєш."-Sandra Newman, Julia
29. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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- fiction
- british literature
"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
30. Life Is Everywhere
By: Lucy Ives
3.58
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A multi-faceted, matryoshka doll of a novel which asks how far we ever able to understand ourselves… read more
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- fiction
31. The Flint Anchor
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
John Barnard, a leading merchant, is a pillar of 19th century rectitude. Though stern with his tipp… read more
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